They are the infamous and the unforgivable: here are the five places you forgot to clean (again!)
5. Underneath the bed. It has been this way ever since you were a child and the invention of swivel-head hoovers and Swiffer have done nothing to change this. Under the bed is always so low to the ground, making it awkward and occasionally painful for out of shape house cleaners to get in there. A proper job of carpet cleaning under the bed is best left to professionals or contortionists. Enough said.
4. Bathroom floor. Notable on this list for how obvious it is, yet still it makes the list because it doesn't get cleaned. Perhaps it is the idea of scrubbing and sweeping away at hubby's chest hair or wifey's leg hair that makes it the place that you intentionally "forgot".
3. Kitchen pantry. What old vegetable-based canned preserves lurk there? No one knows.
2. Washing Machine. You may have actually forgot this one. You will stop forgetting when the white t-shirts inexplicably begin to develop rust stains in mid-cycle. Consider yourself warned.
1. Oven. The enemy, even of obsessive-compulsive end of tenancy cleaners the world over. Ever since that turkey exploded or the chocolate cake melted over the pan, no amount of Cillit-Bang got the job done. Eventually we all stop trying and perhaps this is just the natural human response. For end of tenancy cleaning London professionals cite this as the dirtiest object in any home.
Your own personal order may stray from this, but I am sure we have all been there at one point or another, hands and knees, looking into the oven or washing machine, under the bed. To paraphrase the great Leo Tolstoy: clean families are all alike, but dirty families are each dirty in their own slightly different way.